Miscellany: Sep. 23, 1929

TIME brings all things.

In Eddyville, Ky., Carl Hord, 27, murderer of a grocer, sat in an
electric chair. When the switch was thrown, 2,000 volts went through
his body. Murderer Hord slumped, then straightened up. "Boys," he
remarked, "I'm not dead."

Record

In Earlyville, N. Y., John Parsons claimed a new recordswore that an
electric bulb in his dark hall had been burning steadily for 15
years.

Bat

In Bellmore, L. I., potent station WEAF of the National Broadcasting Co.
was silent for eight hours. Reason: a bat flew between some condenser
plates, died there.